Suicide prevention training helps save lives. Wyoming has a large network of suicide prevention trainers and events. Using the links below, you can find trainers, trainings, and events in your area. You may also use the links to register as a trainer on the Wyoming Suicide Prevention Trainer Network or to submit a training or event to be included on the Wyoming Suicide Prevention Training and Events Calendar. If you have any questions about the network or calendar, contact Jason Lux at jason.lux@wyo.gov.
Gatekeeper Training
Gatekeeper trainings are for anyone and everyone (some may require that attendees are over a certain age and/or accompanied by parents). The goal of these trainings is to teach basic skills in identifying someone who may be at risk for suicide and connecting them with the proper help.
ASIST
ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) is a two-day interactive workshop in suicide first aid. ASIST teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and how to work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. Click here for more information.
CALM Conversations
CALM Conversations is a 60- to 90-minute course that trains those who may not be healthcare or mental health professionals on how to recognize and respond to suicide risk with an additional focus on reducing access to lethal means. While some people may not access behavioral or physical health care directly before a suicide attempt, it is common for them to signal to others, directly or indirectly, that they are struggling. This course provides friends, family, and community members with the skills to recognize these signals and counsel at-risk individuals on how to decrease risk by temporarily reducing access to lethal means. This course has four components:
- Basic facts and misconceptions about suicide, common risk factors and warning signs, and the importance of means safety
- How to ask about mood and suicide
- How to connect at-risk individuals to formal and informal support
- How to discuss lethal means safety and make environments safer for individuals until their mood state improves
Visit the Wyoming CALM Initiative page to learn more.
Mental Health First Aid / Mental Health First Aid - Youth
Mental Health First Aid and Mental Health First Aid – Youth trains you to assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. You will learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help. Click here for more information.
QPR
QPR (Question, Persuade, and Refer) Gatekeeper Training for suicide prevention is a 1-2 hours program designed to teach individuals the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to respond. You will learn how to question the individual’s desire or intent regarding suicide, persuade the person to seek or accept help, and refer the person to appropriate resources. Click here for more information.
SafeTALK
SafeTALK is a half-day alertness training that prepares anyone over the age of 15 to become a suicide-alert helper. Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t truly want to die, but are struggling with the pain in their lives. SafeTALK-trained helpers can recognize these invitations and take action by connecting with life-saving intervention resources. Click here for more information.
Postvention Training
Postvention training focuses on how to conduct an appropriate organizational or community response to a suicide death to reduce the risks of suicide contagion. These trainings are appropriate for administrators, managers, community leaders, or other individuals who may be involved in planning or implementing responses to a suicide death.
Connect Training
Connect Training is a comprehensive training curriculum that includes prevention and intervention, postvention, and Survivor Voices. Connect helps you understand how systems work and how to collaborate across systems to create an integrated community response. Click here for more information.
Training for Clinicians
Clinician trainings are intended for any healthcare or behavioral healthcare professional who interacts directly with patients/clients. This may include ancillary roles such as case management as well.
AMSR
AMSR (Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk) is a one-day training workshop for behavioral health professionals. The 6.5 hour training program is based on latest research and designed to help participants provide safer suicide care. Click here for more information.
CAMS-Care
CAMS Framework is first and foremost a clinical philosophy of care. It is a therapeutic framework for suicide-specific assessment and treatment of a patient’s suicidal risk. It is a flexible approach that can be used across theoretical orientations and disciplines for a wide range of suicidal patients across treatment settings and different treatment modalities.
The clinician and patient engage in a highly interactive assessment process and the patient is actively involved in the development of their own treatment plan. Every session of CAMS intentionally utilizes the patient’s input about what is and is not working. All assessment work in CAMS is collaborative; we seek to have the patient be a “co-author” of their own treatment plan.
Click here for more information.
CALM Clinical Workshops
CALM Clinical Workshop is a 3.5-hour course that trains mental health, medical, and human service professions to counsel individuals and their families to temporarily reduce access to firearms and dangerous medications during times of heightened suicide risk. It has four components:
- Introduction to the evidence-based means safety prevention framework
- How to incorporate means safety into existing risk assessment and crisis response protocols
- How to effectively communicate around means safety
- Role plays based on actual cases seen in clinical settings
Visit the Wyoming CALM Initiative page for more information.